Samsung Ordered to Pay $11.6 Million to Huawei for Patient Infringements
In a ruling by Chinese mid-level court, Samsung has been ordered to play Huawei some $11.6 million for patient infringements that the Korean manufacture’s subsidiaries violated. The ruling will likely be appealed but is a fraction of the over $12 billion that Huawei was asking for in the original filing. In that filing, the Chinese manufacture claimed Samsung and more specifically, some of its subsidiaries that it uses to build their devices, used patented technology in up to 20 of their devices which had sold some 30 million units globally.
As part of the order, the subsidiaries in question, five in all, are ordered to stop using the patented technology in Samsung devices. It is unclear what, if any, impact it will have on the soon-to-be released Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus.